Friday, June 28, 2013

The Wekiva Legacy Society

The Wekiva Legacy Society recognizes our church members who are “Looking Ahead”, and have chosen to extend their support of the church beyond their own lifetime; and who are “Looking Up” as they commit the future of the church to God’s providence and grace.There are many ways to remember the church in your estate planning.Many Wekiva Legacy Society members have found that the simplest way to do this is to make the church one of their life insurance beneficiaries.

The photo with this post shows the symbol of the Wekiva Legacy Society, a design unique to Wekiva Presbyterian Church as it is the design of the skylight in our Sanctuary.

Each year on “Scottish Sunday” there is a Wekiva Legacy Society luncheon to say thank you to all who have remembered the church in this way.If you would like to know more about the Wekiva Legacy Society, speak with one of the members of the Endowment Trust Committee: Sam Tomlinson, Dale Maloney, Tom Roberts, David Fazekas, Nadyne Pennington, and Brandon Woods.

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Welcome, Friends!

Welcome to this series of thoughts and reflections on the Christian journey and life in general.

My hope is that you will find ideas here that will be helpful to you, or that will be an encouragement for you to read and worship and seek as God prompts you.

If you have a church home, I hope you are a faithful member there--worshiping and sharing in education, mission and fellowship.

If you do not have a church home, I hope that God will speak to your heart to point you toward a worshiping fellowship where your faith can be lived out in tangible and meaningful ways.

If you live in Central Florida, I encourage you to visit the church I serve, Wekiva Presbyterian Church in Longwood.

If you live far away from Central Florida, you can worship with us live on Sunday mornings at 11 AM Eastern Time, by going to our church website and linking to our live webcast. Or by watching the Sunday worship in the week following. All of the services are also archived there.

I hope you will let me know what you think of what you find in these postings by posting a comment. Or by using the feature at the end of the post for fast "reactions" feedback. Just click the box that is closest to how the post strikes you.

Blessings,

- John

About Me

John A. Dalles is a Presbyterian clergyman, hymn-writer and Pittsburgh native. A graduate of Penn State, Lancaster Seminary (M. Div.) and Pittsburgh Seminary (Doctor of Ministry), he has served the First Presbyterian Church of South Bend, and Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh. Since 1997 he has served as Senior Pastor of Wekiva Presbyterian Church in Longwood, Florida (near Orlando). As a part of his ministry, Wekiva became the first church in the USA to present live webcasts of worship, a ministry inaugurated Sun., Jan. 2, 2005. Dalles is a writer of texts for hymns. His hymns have been published in hymnbooks in the USA, Canada and Australia. He has published three books of hymns, COME, O SPIRIT, SWIFT CURRENTS AND STILL WATERS, and WE TURN TO GOD. His hymn texts have also been set as choral anthems by noted sacred composers. His 2009 hymn, "God Bless the Work Your People Do" was the winning hymn in the 14th annual, highly-regarded Macalester Plymouth United Church Hymn Contest. He is married to the former Judith Taylor; they have a son, John Taylor Dalles and a daughter, Anne Elizabeth Dalles Sandoval.